Friday, March 8, 2013

the desert

we're back from another holiday in palm springs. it's such a quick, easy getaway to re-charge and enjoy a little much needed sunshine during a grey, rainy vancouver winter. we rented a fantastic house designed by william krisel for the alexander company in the late fifties. it had an amazing pool and covered patio that we used daily.

alice thoroughly enjoyed going for lots of walks in the neighborhood, looking for dogs. she also loved examining all of the pretty rocks on our property.

we hit up the art museum, the living desert (above, which also had the largest working train set i've ever seen!)....

...but my favorite moment was seeing the giant dinosaurs that were in pee wee's big adventure!!! i love that movie and for years i have wanted to stop and see them but we have always been rushing to do something else, drive somewhere else, etc.

this trip we thought alice might like them too. so fun! it wasn't open when we were there so we just saw the two large ones outside the park, but next time i will make it inside!